Improved bed-bottom



NITED STATES PATENT OEEICE.

PETER TAYLOR, OE PAWTUGKET, RHODE ISLAND, AND WILLIAM A. GOVE, y OF OHARLESTOWN, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVED lBED-BOTTOM.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 55,390, dated June 5, 1866.

To all whom it may conce-WL:

Be it known that we, PETER TAYLOR, of Pawtucket, of the county of Providence and State of Rhode Island, and WILLIAM A. GovE, of Charlestown, in the county of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improved Spring-Bed Foundation; and we do hereby declare the same to be fully described in thefollowing specitication and represented in the accompanying drawings, of which- Figure I is a longitudinal section, and Fig. 2 a transverse section, of itl .In carrying out our invention we make use of a light frame, A, composed of a series of thin spring-slats, a.. a a, and ytwo or more connecting-slats, b b, the said slats a ct t being arranged parallel to each other and at equal distances apart, and being connected at or near their ends by the transverse slats b b.

A series of brackets or arms, C O O, project downward from the said frame A, close to each end of it, each of the said brackets or arms being providedwith a buckle, c, for connecting it with one of a series of vulcanized india-rubber elastic straps or springs, D. Each of the said springs, after having been buckled to its arm, extends upward alongside of the said arm, and from thence is led over and half-way around a roller, E,from which the strap or spring descends, and is fastened to the lower part of a plate, F, which serves to support the axle of vthe roller, and is screwed to a bed-frame, B, the Whole being arranged substantially in manner as represented in the drawings. The frame A, which is for sustaining a mattress or bed, thus becomes supported by means of a series ot elastic strips of indiarubber,which, by being carried around rollers and fastened to theframe B, become arranged so as to operate toV excellent advantage.v

By means of the buckles the elastic straps may be taken up so as to vary the degree of elasticity as occasion may require, and particularly in order to prepare the bed-'foundation for the support of two persons, one ofn whom may be heavier than the other.

We claim- I. The combination and arrangement of the arms C, projecting from the frame A, with the 'elastic or india-rubber straps and their supporting-rollers, applied to the frame B, the whole being substantially as specified.

2. The combination of the buckles or equivalent take-up mechanism with the arms O and the elastic strips, applied to the frames A and B, substantially in manner as specified.

3. The combination of the straining-plates F, the elastic straps or springs, their supporting-rollers, and the arms C, the whole being arranged together and with the frames A and B, substantially in manner and so as to operl ate as specied.

' PETER TAYLOR.

WILLIAM A. GOVE. Witnesses:

R. H. EDDY, F. P. HALE, Jr. 

